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Table 4 Antioxidant, free radical scavenging activity and total phenolic content of various solvent extracts of Artemisia parviflora

From: In vitro antimicrobial activity on clinical microbial strains and antioxidant properties of Artemisia parviflora

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Antioxidant activity

TPC mg mL-1

DPPH Assay (%)

FTC (%)

BHT

80.00 ± 0.5

82.23 ± 0.5

NA

α-Tocopherol

65.70 ± 1.5

73.17 ± 0.2

NA

Ethanol

60.83 ± 1.6

60.04 ± 0.4

19.74 ± 3.40

Methanol

85.11 ± 1.0

78.42 ± 0.9

37.18 ± 3.78

Chloroform

55.27 ± 1.1

50.74 ± 0.2

17.44 ± 4.32

n-Hexane

57.14 ± 1.3

55.61 ± 0.3

19.30 ± 2.33

Acetone

45.99 ± 1.0

40.18 ± 0.3

15.30 ± 2.33

Petroleum ether

43.29 ± 1.0

49.20 ± 0.2

15.62 ± 1.80

Ethyl acetate

68.01 ± 0.5

61.51 ± 0.2

23.63 ± 2.20

  1. ± − mean standard deviation of triplicates, NA - not applicable. DPPH - 2, 2-Diphenyl-1-Picrylhydrazyl, FTC - ferric thiocyanate, TPC- Total Phenolic content, BHT- Tert-butyl-1- hydroxyl toluene.